Improvement in mattresses



C. ENSCOE.

Improvement in Mattresses.

Patented Oct. 15, 1872.

UNITED STATES PATENT QFFICE.

CHRISTOPHER ENSGOE, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN MATTRESSES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 132,268, dated October15, 1872.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHRISTOPHER ENsooE, of the city, county, and Stateof New York, have invented an Improved Mattress, of which the followingis a specification:

A great defect in the mattresses now in use is the'depressing intosettled indentations to which they are subject. The object of thisinvention is to obviate this defect, and to this end consists in acircular section arranged in the middle of the mattress so as tobecapable of being turned round to change its position and therebyequalize the depression all over its surface.

The accompanying drawing represents a top view or plan of a mattressmade according to my invention.

A represents the frame of a. bedstead, and B G O the mattress. B is thecircular section, before mentioned, and occupies the middle portion ofthe length of the bed and extends the whole width thereof. It is stuffedand tufted in the usual manner, and forms the body or main portion ofthe mattress. O O are end pieces which fit between the square ends ofthe bedstead and the rounded sides of the aforesaid section B. Thesection B may be stuffed with horse-hair, and the end pieces 0 O withinferior material; or the said section may be furnished with springs andthe end pieces be padded.

Mattresses, to obviate the defect above alluded to, have been made witha square section which can be shifted to four different positions toequalize the depression. This, however, is inadequate, -as there willsoon settle in the said section four indentations. With a circularsection this defect is wholly obviated, for the reason that the sectioncan be shifted to an indefinite number of positions, and thereby enablethe depression to be thoroughly equalized over the whole surface. Thecircular section need not necessarily occupy exactly the center of themattress, but may be nearer one end than the other, and perhaps it wouldbe preferable that it should occupy a position A mattress having acircular section, essen tially as and for the purpose specified.

CHRISTOPHER nNscoE.

. Witnesses:

FRED. HAYNES, FERD. Tnson.

